ChOgyam Trungpa wrote more than two dozen books on Buddhism and the Shambhala path of warriorship. "The Essential ChOgyam Trungpa " blends excerpts from bestsellers like "Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Meditation in Action, " and other titles into a concise overview of Trungpa's teachings. Forty selections from fourteen different books articulate the secular path of the Shambhala warrior as well as the Buddhist path of meditation and awakening. This "new classic" vividly demonstrates Trungpa's great appreciation of Western culture which,...

In Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior Chogyam Trungpa offers an inspiring and practical guide to enlightened living based on the Shambhala journey of warriorship, a secular path taught internationally through the Shambhala Training program.
Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala is a continuation of that path. Shambhala was an exploration of human goodness and its potential to create an enlightened society a state that the author calls "nowness." And in that spirit of nowness, Great Eastern Sun which is accessible to meditators and nonmeditators...

It was not always easy to be the guru s wife, writes Diana Mukpo. But I must say, it was rarely boring. At the age of sixteen, Diana Mukpo left school and broke with her upper-class English family to marry Chogyam Trungpa, a young Tibetan lama who would go on to become a major figure in the transmission of Buddhism to the West. In a memoir that is at turns magical, troubling, humorous, and totally out of the ordinary, Diana takes us into her intimate life with one of the most influential and dynamic Buddhist teachers of our time.
Diana led an extraordinary and unusual life as the "first...